From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:19:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20061005.131943.11597704.davem@davemloft.net> Subject: Re: D-cache aliasing issue in __block_prepare_write From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <87ejtmn675.fsf@sw.ru> References: <87ejtmn675.fsf@sw.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org From: Monakhov Dmitriy Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:16:46 +0400 Return-Path: To: dmonakhov@openvz.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > It's seems I've found D-cache aliasing issue in fs/buffer.c ... > x86 does not have cache aliasing problems, the problem could > show up only on marginal archs, ia64 is the most frequently used. > > Following is the patch against 2.6.18 fix this issue: This patch looks good to me. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org